Table 11.
Papers presenting gel dosimetry treatment verifications together with the gel type, the volume of the volumetric gel phantom, the spatial resolution (voxel size), the dimension of the gel measured dose distribution, the comparison dosimeter and the evaluation quantity. With the evaluation quantities, ‘PAVD’ stands for percentage average dose deviation, ‘rmsd’ stands for root-mean-square deviation and ‘gamma’ stands for the gamma index. ‘Visual’ means that the dose distributions are plotted on top of each other allowing visual inspection.
| Author | Treatment | Polymer type | Resolution | Dim. | Comp. | Evaluation quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farajollahi et al (1999) | 137Cs LDR source | BANG | 0.8 × 0.8 × 3 mm3 | 2D | TLD, TPS (Helax) | rmsd |
| McJury et al (1999) | 192Ir HDR source | PAG | 1 × 1 × 5 mm3 | 2D | TPS (NPS) | Visual |
| Hafeli et al (2000) | 188W-188Re β line source | BANG | 0.1 × 0.1 × 2 mm3 | 1D | MC | PAVD |
| De Deene et al (2001a) | 192Ir HDR source | PAG | 0.8 × 0.8 × 2 mm3 | 2D | MC | Visual |
| Papagiannis et al (2001) | 192Ir HDR source | VIPAR | 0.4 × 0.4 × 3 mm3 | 2D | MC | Visual |
| Chan et al (2001) | 106Ru ophthalmological applicator | BANG | 0.3 × 0.3 × 3 mm3 | – | – | |
| Kipouros et al (2003) | 192Ir HDR source | VIPAR | 0.8 × 0.8 × 1.5 mm3 | 2D | TPS (Plato, Swift) | Gamma |
| Amin et al (2003) | 90S–90Y source | PAG | 0.2 × 0.2 × 0.5 mm3 | 1D | RC Film | PAVD |
| Fragoso et al (2004) | 137Cs intracavitary applicator | PAG | 1 × 1 × 5 mm3 | 2D | TPS (Plato), MC | Visual |
| Pantelis et al (2004) | 125I isoseed | PABIG | 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 mm3 | 1D | MC | Visual |
| Baras et al (2005) | 192Ir HDR source | PABIG | 0.8 × 0.8 × 0.8 mm3 | 1D | TPS (Gammaplan) | Visual |
| Hurley et al (2006) | 192Ir HDR source | MAGIC | 0.1 × 0.1 × 2 mm3 | 2D | TPS (Plato), MC | Visual |
| Sandilos et al (2006) | 192Ir HDR source | PABIG | 0.8 × 0.8 × 0.8 mm3 | 2D | TPS (Gammaplan) | Visual |